Research Catalog

Title

Programming Ruby : the pragmatic programmers' guide / Dave Thomas with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt.

Author

Thomas, David, 1956-

Publication

Raleigh, N.C. : Pragmatic Bookshelf, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fowler, Chad
• Hunt, Andrew, 1964-

Description

xxxii, 830 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

A tutorial and reference to the object-oriented programming language for beginning to experienced programmers, updated for version 1.8, describes the language's structure, syntax, and operation, and explains how to build applications.

Subject

• Object-oriented programming (Computer science)
• Ruby (Computer program language)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Facets of Ruby. Getting started -- Ruby, new -- Classes, objects, and variables -- Containers, blocks, and iterators -- Standard types -- More about methods -- Expressions -- Exceptions, catch, and throw -- Modules -- Basic input and output -- Threads and processes -- Unit testing -- When troubled strikes -- II. Ruby in its setting. Ruby and its world -- Interactive Ruby shell -- Documenting Ruby -- Package management with RubyGems -- Ruby and the web -- Ruby Tk -- Ruby and Microsoft Windows -- Extending Ruby -- III. Ruby crystallized. The Ruby language -- Duck typing -- Classes and objects -- Locking Ruby in the safe -- Reflections, objectspace, and distributed Ruby -- IV. Ruby library references. Built-in classes and modules -- Standard library -- V. Appendixes. Socket library -- MKMF reference -- Support.

ISBN

0974514055 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005299026

OCLC

• 58872212
• SCSB-10455172

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library